Once more than 4 percent of tau molecules in a person’s blood are phosphorylated at residue 217, the clock starts ticking—toward the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, that is. How long it might ...
Exercise helps stave off Alzheimer’s disease, but exactly how it does so is murky. In the February 18 Cell, scientists led by Saul Villeda at the University of California, San Francisco, offered one ...
Can AI bring more order to amyloid scans? In the February 11 Alzheimer’s & Dementia, scientists led by Pierrick Bourgeat at CSIRO Australian eHealth Research Center, Brisbane, and Vincent Doré of ...
This noninvasive approach attempts to modulate the noradrenergic system of the locus coeruleus by stimulating the vagal nerve. It uses electrodes clipped on the outer ear to stimulate the auricular ...
Findings This mutation was identified in a genetic screen of 421 patients in the U.K. with early onset frontotemporal dementia (Koriath et al., 2018). It is also found in the gnomAD variant database ...
Synonyms: High-copy SOD1-G93A, B6SJL.SOD1-G93A, Tg(hSOD1-G93A)1GUR mice, Gurney mice ...
Paper Citations Demars M, Hu YS, Gadadhar A, Lazarov O. Impaired neurogenesis is an early event in the etiology of familial Alzheimer's disease in transgenic mice. J Neurosci Res. 2010 Aug 1;88 ...
This humanized IgG1 antibody inhibits an immune checkpoint protein called programmed death ligand, aka PD-L1, stimulating the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, including other antibodies, are ...
People with Parkinson’s disease have α-synuclein clumps in the brain, but these aggregates are not the only thing clogging them up. Constipation plagues many PD patients, often decades before motor ...
CpG 1018 is a proprietary immune adjuvant made up of short, unmethylated cytosine-phosphate-guanine oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs). Its components mimic bacterial DNA to activate innate immunity ...
Dear reader, don your deerstalker, for there was an unsolved mystery at the Human Amyloid Imaging conference, held January 12–14 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Renaud La Joie of the University of ...